Romans 3:1-2 What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?… The following supposed cases may serve to explain the force of the question raised, and replied to in the text: If the scholarships at Oxford or Cambridge are given away irrespective of the seminaries from which the candidates come, what relative advantage has a youth educated at one of our public schools over and above another who is sell-taught, and with few helps? Much every way; for he has had the best text books, skilled masters, and the like. Or, again, suppose a philanthropist should undertake the reformation of the waifs and strays of society in his own neighbourhood, and for this purpose were to select certain youths whom he received into an institution where they were fed, clothed, and specially trained. Now if, after a while, the person in question should throw open the doors of this establishment, would not there still be a surplus of privilege belonging to those whom he had first admitted? — would not the care and instruction which they had already enjoyed raise them above their fellows, and fit them for being the most qualified instruments in the carrying out of their benefactors' liberal-minded and large-hearted designs? (C. Nell, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?WEB: Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? |
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